Are the Mayans Full of *bleep*?

[debraleesparks]

 :wave:I listen to "Coast to Coast" every night, and they had a guy on saying that we are safe.. they are just trying to sell tickets to a movie.

[debraleesparks]

 :thumbsup:And what if it does ?? We all have to die sometime.

[Arxilla]

i dont like the feeling of knowing that we are ganna die....in 3 years. i think its true, but at the same time, we are not supose to know when we are ganna die D;

[StevenRichman]

Morons the Mayans never said the world will end, idiots saw that their calendar ended at 2012 and led them to thinking that is when the world will end.

[liljp617]

A)  There is a difference between the world ending and the world seeing a drastic, significant change -- the second being what the Mayans actually "predicted," if anything.

B)  I'm supposed to trust a civilization on when the world will "end," and yet that civilization was wiped off the face of the Earth in the snap of a finger, so to speak?  No thanks.  Evidently they weren't that intelligent.

[walksalone11]

A)  There is a difference between the world ending and the world seeing a drastic, significant change -- the second being what the Mayans actually "predicted," if anything.

B)  I'm supposed to trust a civilization on when the world will "end," and yet that civilization was wiped off the face of the Earth in the snap of a finger, so to speak?  No thanks.  Evidently they weren't that intelligent.

There are still people of Mayan decent living today, they were not "wiped off the face of the Earth". Evidently, you aren't as intelligent as you would like for us to believe.

It would do people well to at least have some basic knowledge of the topics the pick to attempt being an authority on.


www.mayanindians.com ..............."Contrary to popular belief, the Mayan civilization was not one unified empire, but rather a multitude of separate entities with a common cultural background. Similar to the Greeks, they were religiously and artistically a nation, but politically sovereign states. As many as twenty such states existed on the Yucatan Peninsula."

[liljp617]

A)  There is a difference between the world ending and the world seeing a drastic, significant change -- the second being what the Mayans actually "predicted," if anything.

B)  I'm supposed to trust a civilization on when the world will "end," and yet that civilization was wiped off the face of the Earth in the snap of a finger, so to speak?  No thanks.  Evidently they weren't that intelligent.

There are still people of Mayan decent living today, they were not "wiped off the face of the Earth". Evidently, you aren't as intelligent as you would like for us to believe.

It would do people well to at least have some basic knowledge of the topics the pick to attempt being an authority on.


www.mayanindians.com ..............."Contrary to popular belief, the Mayan civilization was not one unified empire, but rather a multitude of separate entities with a common cultural background. Similar to the Greeks, they were religiously and artistically a nation, but politically sovereign states. As many as twenty such states existed on the Yucatan Peninsula."

The overwhelming majority of their civilization was gone in a very short period of time.

[walksalone11]

A)  There is a difference between the world ending and the world seeing a drastic, significant change -- the second being what the Mayans actually "predicted," if anything.

B)  I'm supposed to trust a civilization on when the world will "end," and yet that civilization was wiped off the face of the Earth in the snap of a finger, so to speak?  No thanks.  Evidently they weren't that intelligent.

There are still people of Mayan decent living today, they were not "wiped off the face of the Earth". Evidently, you aren't as intelligent as you would like for us to believe.

It would do people well to at least have some basic knowledge of the topics the pick to attempt being an authority on.


www.mayanindians.com ..............."Contrary to popular belief, the Mayan civilization was not one unified empire, but rather a multitude of separate entities with a common cultural background. Similar to the Greeks, they were religiously and artistically a nation, but politically sovereign states. As many as twenty such states existed on the Yucatan Peninsula."

The overwhelming majority of their civilization was gone in a very short period of time.

There is a big difference between being "wiped off the face of the earth" and "an overwhelming majority of their population was gone in a very short period of time" even if your new version was true, which it isn't. It took at least 200 years for the majority to be displaced, most of whom simply assimilated into various other populations.

This is how often times misinformation becomes regarded as fact when it is not. Anyone is entitled to speak their opinion on any subject however it is a great dis-service to offer your opinions as fact, especially when they are in err. As I have said a couple other times, please research a subject(especially one concerning the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island) before repping yourself as an authority on it.


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/08/maya-rise-fall/gugliotta-text/1



".......How could one of the ancient world's great civilizations simply dissolve?

Early speculation centered on sudden catastrophe, perhaps volcanism or an earthquake or a deadly hurricane. Or perhaps it was a mysterious disease, untraceable today—something like the Black Death in medieval Europe or the smallpox that wiped out Native American populations at the dawn of the colonial age. Modern researchers have discarded these one-event theories, however, because the collapse extended over at least 200 years. "There isn't any single factor that everybody agrees on," says Southern Illinois University's Prudence M. Rice.

Scholars have looked instead at combinations of afflictions in different parts of the Maya world, including overpopulation, environmental damage, famine, and drought. "You come away feeling that anything that can go wrong did," says Rice.

They have also focused on the one thing that appears to have happened everywhere during the prolonged decline: As resources grew scarce, the kuhul ajaw lost their divine luster, and, with it, the confidence of their subjects, both noble and commoner. Instability and desperation in turn fueled more destructive wars. What had been ritualized contests fought for glory or captives turned into spasms of savagery....."

[Shutmeup3030150]

I believe they are, I don't see the world ending anytime soon.

[Stealth3si]

Perhaps they ran out of ink?

[klutzycutie]

in truth i saw from a website that

thats wat the mayans believe would b the end of our era

and supposedly there were many others who say that thats the end

i personally think its gonna b another year and day just like when it turned 2000

tho if nething does happen

then i know from history that many may live and some will...u know

its all in the research

tho mainly i think nothing will happen

[strikewhun]

Will 2012 be the end?

Only if Palin actually becomes president.

true dat!